Murderer Alissa Moore denied parole

Alissa Marie Moore, 33, formerly from Willits, was denied parole for at least another five years by the California Board of Parole Hearings on Oct. 23. Moore is serving 15 years to life sentence in state prison for murdering her boyfriend Paul Steven Rodriguez, 19, in April 1997. Moore was 17 years old at the time of the murder.

District Attorney David Eyster applauded the state board's decision, citing the planning Moore put into the execution-style killing of Paul Rodriguez in a rural area on the Mendocino Coast. Mendocino County Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Boyd appeared at Moore's hearing and argued successfully against her release.

Moore and her two accomplices were originally charged with first degree murder but eventually pleaded guilty to lesser crimes.

Moore eventually pleaded guilty to second degree murder.

Moore enlisted two accomplices to lure Rodriguez to the murder site. One of the accomplices stashed the murder weapon in a horse trailer next to a staged a vehicle breakdown. Rodriguez drove Moore to the murder scene.

Moore shot Rodriguez in the head with a shotgun at point-blank range when he leaned over the car engine trying to fix the broken down car.

Moore and her accomplices then stuffed Rodriguez' body into his car's trunk and dumped it into brush about three miles west of the Navarro River bridge on Highway 128.